Sixteen of the most fascinating true stories of love, sex, and murder--crimes of passion all--that range from the shocking to the poignant and even the head-shakingly absurd.

Here is the heartrending story of Frenchwoman Yvonne Chevallier, who loved the husband she killed; the scandalous tale of the Oregon prophet Joshua the Second, who loved all women--with great gusto but unfortunately neither wisely nor well; the infamous murder of the famous and wealthy architect Stanford White at a first-run show by the incalculably wealthier Harry K. Thaw over the girl in the red velvet swing; and many more.

Blazing across the last century, these ardent and amorous stories are told here by such superior practitioners of the craft as F. Tennyson Jesse, Stewart Holbrook, Edmund Pearson, Edward D. Radin, Dorothy Kilgallen, and the New Yorker's longtime contributor Janet Flanner, who wrote for the magazine under the name Genêt.

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Editorial Reviews

Review

"Ably and intelligently edited by Jerrold Mundis and written by some very good true crime writers. Well worth the reading." - Los Angeles Times "A nice roundup for collectors."- Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

"The reader with a good memory will recall a few of these crimes, but no one is going to be bored here." - The Tennessean

About the Author

Jerrold Mundis is the author of 17 novels, 13 books of nonfiction, a number of ghostwritten books, and some 100 short stories, essays and articles. His books have been selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild, the One Spirit Book Club and other book clubs, and translated into more than a dozen foreign languages. His short work has appeared in publications ranging from the New York Times Magazine to American Heritage and the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He has written under a number of pseudonyms as well as his own name, most notably Eric Corder and Robert Calder. He is an experienced literary coach and teacher of professional and avocational writing.